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What age do you think your kids can stay home alone?

My mom used to leave me alone with my younger brother when I was eight. As my kids are too small to even think about it, I don't know, but 10 or 12 sounds good to me. I think it depends on the child, too, though.

I've wondered about this too. We have an 11 and 9 year old. We go to the grocery store and will leave them alone but beyond that they usually go with us... sometimes we make a home depot run and leave them there so they don't have to sit with the mulch.

I wonder about leaving them for hours by themselves though. Sometimes we go places they just don't enjoy.. football games whe it's hot outside.. I wonder they are getting to the point where we should give them the option of going or staying. We don't have to worry about them destroying the house. They are good girls.